“Women with desire and devilry in their eyes. Detectives with pistols in their paws and not enough luck to fill a matchbox. Damp, deserted roadways. Hot-sheet motels. Women in peril, ...
From an attempt to illustrate every page of Finnegans Wake to the books we’re given as presents, six bookish blogs we love. Continue Reading Six Themed Lit Blogs ...
A London-based publisher recently asked me, “How would you compare US and UK book cover designs?” I had no intelligent answer for him—I’d never taken the time to study the ...
The editors can go two ways—they might give me a brief synopsis of the book’s plot and say, “It will sit alongside these certain titles, this is the market,” and ...
Never judge a book by its cover, as the old saying goes. Well, I’ve been thinking a bit about book covers recently. It’s partly down to my last blog with ...
The main characteristic of the Penguin paperbacks we have on sale at the secondhand bookshop I work in is scruffiness. They’ve usually been read, re-read, loved, kept in pockets, stuffed ...
The big news in the book industry this week has been Bloomsbury’s cover design for Liar by Justine Larbalestier. You can read all about it here, but if ...
